Finally watched it (May 8th, ’11) after I had recorded from HBO.
– manzoor
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Boat House Grill
Mandola’s Italian Market
- Location – Triangle
- Cuisine – Italian, Bakery / Cafe / Coffee
- Cost – $ ~ $+
- Rate – 8+
One of my most favorite places in Austin for coffee and snacks. They have very good Pizza and other traditional Italian dishes, but I rarely am there for lunch or dinner – so, I rarely get a chance to try them. But most of their pastries are just soooooo goooood. And yes, I think I actually have tried most of them.
– manzoor
To Google or Not to Google
I find it interesting that google, having influenced the online community as much as they have, have not been able to influence us with some of the newer offerings. for example:
- ORKUT
- Picasaweb
I’m not complaining, because I think this is a good thing that they have not
– manzoor
Casa Colombia
- Cuisine – South America, Colombian
- Location – East Austin (E 7th & Concho St)
Casa Colombia had been on my “wish list” for the longest time. I even went there once a few weeks ago – only to find out that they were closed :o(
Well, this time we were not as unfortunate. We were returning from the Airport and it did take me a little while to find it (I have very rarely come from the Airport thru Downtown and they also had construction going on), but find it we did and was quite pleasantly surprised to find ample parking space.- manzoor
Tweet, Buzz???
Just saw this new thing from google called “Buzz”. Sounds like Tweet to me ;~)
– manzoor
Peony
- Location – North
- Cuisine – Oriental, Chinese
- Cost – $$
- Rate – 8+
– manzoor
Apple iPad
With a 9.7″ display, weighing at 1.5lb and 10hour [claimed] battery life, it’s basically a large(r) iTouch. WiFi, 80211n, and BlueTooth is built in. For an extra $130 it comes with 3G (from AT&T). It plays rich digital content and is able to browse the web (most toasters are able to browse the web these days).
BTW, it also allows you to read Newspapers, Magazines and Books (that you have to get from iTunes).
– manzoor
Korea Market
- Location – North / Central
- Cuisine – Oriental, Korean
- Cost – $
- Hours
- Rate – 7
Located at the corner of Lamar & Airport Blvd.
– manzoor
Cloud Storage from Google
Cloud storage is now coming from google with 1Gb of Free capacity (250Mb for a single file) with extra storage available at $0.25/Gb/yr.
The initial overhead of uploading all my files will definitely be an issue (not to mention “trusting” someone else to protect my “stuff”). Also, working with applications that are not browser / web based (i.e., image or video processing) would NOT be ideal.
But to be able to have a temp backup storage of say 50Gb~100Gb could come in handy.
– manzoor
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